搜尋結果
confession
- IPA[kənˈfeSH(ə)n]
美式
- a formal statement admitting that one is guilty of a crime；an admission or acknowledgment that one has done something that one is ashamed or embarrassed about
noun: confession, plural noun: confessions
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a formal statement admitting that one is guilty of a crime he signed a confession to the murders
- ▪ an admission or acknowledgment that one has done something that one is ashamed or embarrassed about by his own confession, he had strayed perilously close to alcoholism
- ▪ a formal admission of one's sins with repentance and desire of absolution, especially privately to a priest as a religious duty she still had not been to confession
- ▪ humorous intimate revelations about a person's private life or occupation, especially as presented in a sensationalized form in a book, newspaper, or movie confessions of a driving instructor
- 2. a statement setting out essential religious doctrine a Protestant confession of faith
- ▪ the religious body or Church sharing a confession of faith leading figures from every Christian confession
- ▪ a statement of one's principles his words are a political confession of faith
